Flurry Rogue Endgame Build Guide

The Flurry Rogue works really well when you decimate everything in seconds, but may get overwhelmed if fights are long against high level monsters. There are several adjustments you can make when you have trouble with more difficult content:

• Check if your Armor & Resists are capped.
• Use defensive consumables.
• Roll Maximum Life instead of offensive stats on as many pieces as possible.
• Kite enemies when they become Unstoppable.

Stolen Vigor grants you Unstoppable for 3 seconds every 6 seconds. Rogues don't have many sources of Unstoppable but a good way to break out of Crowd Control on demand is with Shadow Step.

In the early game you may occasionally be starved on resources before you get enough Attack Speed and Lucky Hit Chance. Investing more into Resource Cost Reduction (especially on ranged weapon) helps with this. Alternatively, you can put points into the Aftermath, use Resource Aspects like Umbral or Galvanized Slasher's, and roll more Energy per Second on your gear.

Generally Hardcore and Softcore share the same builds. Outside of being more prudent in your gameplay, you can also tweak the setup slightly to raise your survivability:

• Focus more on armor & resists, making sure that they are always capped especially as you transition into higher Torment difficulties.
• Prioritize more on maximum life rolls, for example replacing DPS stats like Dexterity, Attack Speed, Critical Strike Chance. and additive increased damage rolls. Also Masterwork Maximum Life more than normal if no other crucial stats have priority.
• Spec into Defensive skills, Passives and Paragon nodes first as you level up.
• Play on a slightly lower difficulty than you normally would and don't push into difficult territory. As long as you can deal with all enemies swiftly, they can't retaliate.
• Include a source of Unstoppable if possible to get out of Crowd Control effects.
• Use defensive elixirs and incenses instead of offensive ones, such as Soothing Spices, Song of the Mountain, and Elixir of Fortitude II.

Even without Dark Shroud on your skill bar, there are two ways to gain shrouds: Enshrouding Aspect and Umbrous Aspect. The latter is used in this build to profit from the enormous Damage Reduction. For it to work, you don't even have to invest any points into Dark Shroud on the skill tree, but you can if you want to profit from a higher Damage Reduction value or its enhancement and upgrade options.

Flurry currently has a bug with its Attack Speed causing you to attack significantly faster than expected in certain situations. This makes it extremely difficult to maintain Imbuement charges without a steep investment outside of the Overpower variant.

• Dark Shroud stacks Damage Reduction additively for each active shadow. Due to the additive stacking, each increase in the skill's rank and active shadows boosts your survivability exponentially.
• Shadows have a 1.5 seconds cooldown between losing stacks, but the Damage Reduction still applies depending on how many are active at all times.
• At maximum stacks, your effective hit points (EHP) scale as follows in these examples:
  • Rank 1: 66.6% more EHP
  • Rank 5: 92.3% more EHP
  • Rank 10: 138.1% more EHP
  • Rank 15: 215% more EHP
  • Rank 20: 354.5% more EHP

• While all the exact mechanics are much more nuanced, there are two separate Attack Speed Bonus caps of +100% that apply to all builds for a total potential of +200%. For Rogues, these two caps are distributed in the following way:

Cap 1

• Gear rolls
• Paragon nodes
• Elixirs
• Flurry combo points buff
• Close Quarters Combat (Cutthroat portion)
• Moonrise
• Artillery Shrine

Cap 2

• Close Quarters Combat (Marksman portion)
• Enhanced Heartseeker
• Alchemical Advantage
• Haste
• Accelerating
• High Velocity
• Asheara's Khanjar

Read up more on Attack Speed in our dedicated guide by Ava.

Bosses are immune to Crowd Control (CC) effects and instead take Stagger Damage when hit by one. The amount of Stagger damage dealt depends on the type of CC and is proportional to its duration. After being hit by a CC effect, the Boss temporarily takes less Stagger Damage from a CC of the same type.

Effectively, this means that when you're just spamming one type of CC you don't need to spam any more of it than what you need to keep a normal enemy permanently CC-d. To Stagger the Boss quickly you need to use as many different types of CC as possible. After the Boss is staggered it gains a certain amount of stacking Stagger Damage Reduction for the rest of the fight:

• After 1st Stagger: 20%
• After 2nd Stagger: 40%
• After 3rd Stagger: 60%
• After 4th Stagger: 90%

Bosses naturally regain 1% of their Stagger HP every second and when that regeneration is combined with 90% Stagger Damage Reduction it becomes borderline impossible to Stagger the Boss again unless you bring a serious amount of Crowd Control.

• Weapon Mastery works for any direct damage instance that explicitly uses your weapon.
• Weapon Mastery does not work for indirect damage, such as Poison Imbuement, Victimize, and Andariel's Visage.
• Unlike Malice, Weapon Mastery does not show on the Character Stat Sheet which means it has no impact on either Victimize or Precision.
• Weapon Mastery counts both melee weapons for Cutthroat skills, meaning that two daggers would be 1.07 x 1.07 = 1.1449.

If Weapon Mastery: Daggers is active for 55% of the target's HP (first 20% and last 35%), that is not the same as being active for 55% of your attacks, which is what a weighted stat approach is doing. The 55% of HP benefiting from Weapon Mastery: Daggers is depleted faster than the other 45%, so you want a formula that factors the multiplier in terms of fight duration:

1 / ( ( HP% Uptime / Multiplier ) + ( 1 - HP% Uptime ) )

In the case of Weapon Mastery: Daggers we would have:

1 / ( ( 0.55 / 1.21 ) + ( 1 - 0.55 ) ) =
1 / ( 0.454545 + 0.45 ) =
1 / 0.904545 =
1.105528 or +10.5528% (about +10.6%)

This is essentially a "time-to-kill" (TTK) formula instead of a weighted average. If you imagine 100 attacks of equal value, the second to last row above implies that with 21% Weapon Mastery: Daggers active for 55% of the HP, you now kill the target in ~90.45 attacks, so the reciprocal of (new TTK / old TTK) becomes the damage gain.

With +3 Weapon Mastery: Daggers ranks from gear for a total 1.42x multiplier, you would have:
1 / ( ( 0.55 / 1.42 ) + ( 1 - 0.55 ) ) = 1.19428 or about +19.42%

Using this formula, it is quite complicated to optimize for what weapon type to use. Using 10 ranks of Weapon Mastery as an example, we could calculate the damage gain of using different weapon combinations the following way:

• Double Sword = 1/((0.55/((1+0.03*10)*(1+0.03*10)))+((1-0.55)/((1+0.03*10)*(1+0.03*10))))-1 = 69% increased damage
• Double Dagger = 1/((0.55/((1+0.07*10)*(1+0.07*10)))+((1-0.55)))-1 = 56.17% increased damage
• Sword + Dagger = 1/((0.55/((1+0.07*10)*(1+0.03*10)))+((1-0.55)/((1+0.03*10))))-1 = 68.06% increased damage

In this scenario, using Double Sword assuming you do not "burst" away the non-injured and healthy parts of the fight means Double Sword actually gives you the most damage at rank 10 Weapon Mastery. However, if we burst a bit of the HP away so that Weapon Mastery: Daggers is active for 70% of the fight instead of 55% of the fight, we get the following damage gain:

• Double Sword = 1/((0.70/((1+0.03*10)*(1+0.03*10)))+((1-0.70)/((1+0.03*10)*(1+0.03*10))))-1 = 69% increased damage
• Double Dagger = 1/((0.70/((1+0.07*10)*(1+0.07*10)))+((1-0.70)))-1 = 84.43% increased damage
• Sword + Dagger = 1/((0.70/((1+0.07*10)*(1+0.03*10)))+((1-0.70)/((1+0.03*10))))-1 = 82.64% increased damage

In this context, Double Dagger becomes the best choice. It is important to know that this passive entirely depends on what content you play, but you can play it safe and use daggers in all content except for the highest levels of the pit.